moral

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the significance of a story or event
  2. adjective concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles
  3. adjective psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect

Etymology

From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”) (first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).

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lesson

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